S&P 500 Stocks with the Highest Percentage of Buy Ratings

For those interested, below we provide a list of the S&P 500 stocks with the highest percentage of buy ratings.

To make the list, at least five analysts have to cover the stock. As shown, only one stock in the S&P 500 has 100% buy ratings -- FMC Corp. (FMC) Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) used to have 100% buy ratings, but an analyst at Jefferies had to ruin the TMO party by putting a hold on the stock on Tuesday.

Cognizant Technology (CTSH), Flowserve (FLS), CMS Energy (CMS), and Google (GOOG) are the other five stocks in the S&P 500 with 90% or more buy ratings. Unsurprisingly, Apple (AAPL) is also on the list with 85.71% buy ratings.

Thirty-six out of 40 analysts covering Google have a buy on the stock, while 36 out of 42 analysts covering Apple have a buy on it. Those are some pretty high percentages, but that's just the name of the game in analyst-land. Other notable names on the list include Mastercard (MA), Pfizer (PFE), Coca-Cola (KO), and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).

Comments

[tc1]

Great idea to compile this list-- very useful. I don't recall seeing anyone else do this anytime this year. Should be done more often. If you guys would be willing to do this twice a year or so, i and others, i'm sure, would be very grateful.

2009 Nov 20 04:15 PM

[OstrichHater]

Typically analysts will upgrade stocks that have performed well. This does not mean they will peform well afterwards. Having been a sellside analyst and having done some quant analysis on this, there is close to 0 significance to the subsequent performance of higher vs lower rated stocks.

2009 Nov 21 04:06 PM